since some days emacs displays foreground colors when selected, stores them, however don't display them after a re-open of the document. Attached the document and some technicalm info.
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./configure \
--prefix=$deploy_folder \
--sysconfdir=$sysconfdir \
--enable-locallisppath=$locallisppath \
--libexecdir=$libexecdir \
--localstatedir=$localstatedir \
--enable-largefile \
--with-x-toolkit=gtk3 \
--with-sound=yes \
--with-modules \
--with-xwidgets \
--without-pop \
--with-file-notification=yes
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GNU Emacs 26.0.50 of 2017-09-11
dist: Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)
subdist: none.
kernel: Linux XXX 4.12.9-300.fc26.x86_64
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Code:
Content-Type: text/enriched
Text-Width: 70
<x-color>-*- mode: enriched -*-
<x-color><param>blue</param>blue</x-color></x-color> <x-color><x-color><param>red</param>red</x-color></x-color> none